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BOOKS (continued) but that it also discusses where they are not, and where alternates or substitutions can be made. The same is true for his discussion on hardware. The fifth part of this book is also invaluable. Here furniture, some traditional , but most modern, that with only very rare exceptions are in the highest taste and worthy of study and emulation. There is not much here on finishing Joyce shows examples of We make hardwoods less hard to find. At reasonable prices. John Harra Wood or upholstery. Another problem, typically English, is the poor correlation between the text and the illustrations. A random example: The section on sliding flush doors, p. 316, refers the reader back to diagram 242, which is on p. 315. One can go quite mad trying to flip the page back and forth to look at the diagram and read about it at the same time. But even with these faults, The Encyclopedia of Furniture Making is a first-rate choice for the novice and even the advanced professional, especially because of its wealth of obviously shop-tested advice. Feirer calls his book Cabinetmaking and Mtflwork. The title should have been Mtflwork and Cabinetmaking, for the emphasis is upon heavy machinery, industrial production and commercially prefabricated materials. The sections near the beginning on furniture designs and styles are a key to the drawback of this book: In a volume of nearly one thousand pages only one column, less than one third of a page, is devoted to the history of cabinetmaking. This is hardly adequate in a book "designed for an advanced woodworking course." Worse, the photographs that illustrate various historical periods of great cabinetmaking are all of modern mass-produced adaptations or "reproductions," though they are not so labeled in the book. The photographs and illustrations of "good furniture and cabinet design" are also of commercial pieces, most of which are, quite frankly, hideous. Cabinetmaking and Mtllwork does excel, however, in its very long and comprehensive discussions of the safe, efficient and sometimes even creative use of the most common portable and stationary power tools, plastics and standard prefabricated hardware items. But when it comes to hand tools, Cabinetmaking and Mtflwork leaves you lost. On page 230, for example, he shows illustrations of various handsaws. Of the uses of the ripsaw he says, "To cut with the grain. Caution: support the waste stock. Never allow end of saw to strike the floor. " Period. But how do you hold the ripsaw? How do you keep it cutting in a straight line? At what I American and imported hardwoods, plywoods and turning blocks. At reasonable prices. We guarantee the wood we sell because all our lumber is FAS, kiln dried and surfaced two sides. 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